Descriptive Entry
Descriptive Entry
This accession consists of records that pertain to the Facing the Lights: Historic American Portrait Daguerreotypes exhibition. Materials Include loan agreements with individuals, historical societies, university archives/libraries, and outside museums; lists of incoming loans, which register name of lender and transportation arrangements for objects; travel vouchers; lender sheets; photocopies of articles; correspondence and memoranda; exhibition scripts; photographs (mostly 8 x 10, black and white) of historic personages, permission forms to reproduce prints from originals, typeset labels to be photographed, and photo orders; notes; and lists of famous quotations (to the exhibit photographs). Additional materials can be found in Accession 99-094.
Prefered Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 91-030, National Portrait Gallery. Office of Exhibitions, Exhibition Records
Smithsonian Institution Archives
Washington, D.C.
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